So, I'm moving next month and I began packing this morning. I stopped by the bookstore to bum boxes for moving and scored 15 boxes. Once I started filling them I found that 15 book-boxes isn't even enough for my actual books.

I've got 5 full bookshelves and one waist high one. One of the fulls is for magazines, comics, graphic novels, and video-game guides etc. The rest is books. Once I own my own home I plan on having a library room.

You guys?

I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.

Two full bookshelves, along with two full end tables, (two shelves in each) and working on a third bookshelf, which happens to be exceptionally long, around 2-3m. (Equivalent of two bookshelves, roundabouts.)

Local bookshop had a closing down sale, so we (my family and I) scored around 100-200 books. We're putting them on my new bookshelf as we finish them.

A flap of the wings yesterday means big changes tomorrow.Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.

*sob* My comic collection , all gone matey...sold , given away and stolen *sigh*.My love affair with collecting first additions ended some time ago along with all the esoteric paper stuff I used to collect like pop up books , cards , stamps etc .these days I'm trying to get rid of stuff .All I have left is four boxes of reference books , any paperbacks I buy gets traded or passed around or stored on someone's else's bookshelf .Anyways , this house is rather small for a library and I wonder if I'm going to stay so my answer is no .

I don't read as much. I go for quality rather than quantity of books. I must say, hovewer, that I gave out my Macedonian-language collection of books (which was enough to fill my entire room) to my brother... he doesn't read at all, so it is safe to assume that I have given my booksaway for nothing.

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The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

Right now it's all in boxes. There aren't a lot of books in those boxes, but they're all ones that I like. And multiple copies of some of them (The Monkey Wrench Gang for example) because when I loan them out, I don't expect them to ever come back. We'll see how many shelf feet they occupy after I get moved.

I've done two major moves in the last four years: for the first I pared my lifetime accumulated reference & reading library from *cough* EIGHT *cough* floor-to-ceiling bookcases in my library/studio room down to five. (Granted, I had videos and music there as well, but still...) The local high school art teachers got a nice boost for references, and I released most of my theology (and heresy!) texts to people who would benefit from them. I still had forty (40) 'medium-sized' boxes of books, dvds and cds.

Can you say, 'biceps'?

Recent move pared down further: I arrived here with only thirty 'medium-sized' boxes. I'm down to (six) 6' tall bookshelves without the 22" extensions that took them to the ceiling in the old place. Gak!!! I'm running out of books!!!

And I always cough up money for book boxes at U-Haul so they're new, sturdy, and stack well. A co-worker gave me a tote bag long ago with a quote by Desiderius Erasmus: "When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." I am amazed at how many people live with no visible signs* of literacy.

* Unless you count TV Guide, I guess.

I will honor Monkey in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.~Charles "Darwin" Dickens

Rough estimate: about 800 books in my personal library. That’s not including my wife’s or daughter’s books or any movies or cd's. I have three six foot high bookshelves, two three foot high bookshelves, all full to overflowing and stacks of books in a closet. I had to give up my library room temporarily to make room for some family members who moved in about eight months ago. As soon as a room becomes available again, I’ll find another bookshelf or two. Books are my passion.

When I was a kid, my sister came home from school in tears, with a rather snarky note from her second grade teacher stating that said sister was over-reacting and being ridiculous...because she'd freaked when given her homework assignment - count the books in your house.

After we split the house up in sections and spent all evening counting, my mother sent her own note back, with the total (2000 and some), and a sternly worded warning to the teacher to get over herself.

Fifteen years (and half again as many books) later, my ex looked around with concern and said "Our house isn't going to end up looking like your mother's, is it?" (I was building bookcases at the time).

Pretty much, it did. Someday I'll count them, but I'm guessing close to 2000...I don't buy a lot I would have before the internet.

Empusa's crew, so naked-new they may not face the fire,
But weep that they bin too small to sin to the height of their desire,
(Kipling)

That's why I count my books in linear feet. Measure a single shelf, multiply by the number of shelves on that bookcase. Repeat for each additional bookcase (remeasuring when moving to one of a different width).

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I have a closet littered with books on the top shelf and on the floor.

Defiantly nothing to compare to the massive Rainswept Library.

“We are often hesitant to look at other faiths or to examine our own critically because we feel that, in doing so, we are being disloyal to our own deeply felt convictions. ... And yet our beliefs are not worth very much if they cannot stand up to any scrutiny.” -- James Livingston.